apworld - p3ch6culture

Development and interaction of cultures

Theme	How does this theme apply to your civilization?
Religions	believed that their gods maintained the flow of the word as well as aguriculture in exchange for regular sacrifices. sacrifices included blood-letting rituals and the sacrifices of human lives. teothihuacan rcognised an earth god and a rain god.
Belief Systems, philosophies, and ideologies	created myths of the beginings of human life. believed in popol vul, a creation myth saying that humans began as maize and water which turned into the components of flesh and blood.
Science and Technology	created a calandar with two kinds of year: ritual and solar. studied astronomy to help them predict aguricultural changes. used thehir resourses of obsidian to create sharp tools.
The arts and architecture	constructed large statues made of stone resembling leaders asnd sometimes their gods. built pyarimids at their political centers( which also stood as ceremonial centers)